Yellow Warblers
I've probably taken at least ten times more photos of yellow warblers in the last five days than I have in all of my life combined. I've waited for years for them to show up in the yard and I can't really explain their sudden appearance. They are regulars at the local ponds, but I always see them high up in the trees or through a tangle of branches, and I have never managed a serviceable photo of one. I'm not sure how many separate individuals have come to the yard, but I've seen at least three different patterns on the ones that have come. I guess maybe it just took one stumbling by chance upon the water and then others followed. I've since noticed that if I mist the ferns with the garden hose they (along with the wilson's and orange-crowned warblers) love to take baths by rubbing themselves franticly in the fronds. Yellow warbler on bracken fern, backyard Olympia.
Yellow Warblers
I've probably taken at least ten times more photos of yellow warblers in the last five days than I have in all of my life combined. I've waited for years for them to show up in the yard and I can't really explain their sudden appearance. They are regulars at the local ponds, but I always see them high up in the trees or through a tangle of branches, and I have never managed a serviceable photo of one. I'm not sure how many separate individuals have come to the yard, but I've seen at least three different patterns on the ones that have come. I guess maybe it just took one stumbling by chance upon the water and then others followed. I've since noticed that if I mist the ferns with the garden hose they (along with the wilson's and orange-crowned warblers) love to take baths by rubbing themselves franticly in the fronds. Yellow warbler on bracken fern, backyard Olympia.